Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Desire is the very essence of man.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I will never retire unless I have to.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.